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San Francisco supervisors voted unanimously to ban the sale of fur Tuesday, further burnishing the city's animal-loving credentials as it becomes the largest US city to approve the prohibition. Animal welfare advocates around the world cheered news of Tuesday's vote, applauding the city for its compassion and hoping that the legislation will catch on. The ban takes effect Jan. 1 next year and applies to apparel and accessories featuring real fur, including coats, key chains, and gloves, the AP reports. An amendment added Tuesday allows furriers and other retailers to sell current inventory until Jan. 1, 2020. Mayor Mark Farrell says he plans to sign the legislation.

Wayne Hsiung, co-founder of animal rights network Direct Action Everywhere, said in a statement that "this historic act will usher in a new wave of animal rights legislation across the globe." Retailers in San Francisco, however, balked at what they called another social mandate at the cost of their ability to make a living. About 50 clothing and accessory retailers downtown will be affected by the legislation, said Jim Lazarus, senior vice president of public policy at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. Reselling vintage and used fur by outlets not usually in the business of trading fur, such as secondhand stores, pawn shops, and nonprofits, will still be allowed. (In 2011, West Hollywood became the first American city to ban fur.)

Hmmmmm... Interesting. SF Liberals work on getting that done ASAP.(which I agree no animals for Fur) but won't lift a finger to correct this... this is how the DEMOCRATS are turning these (SANCTUARY) cities into a Hellhole to live there TOO!. NBC Investigation Shows San Francisco, Most Progressive City In Country, A Festival Of Filth San Francisco sounds nice, except for the “dangerous mix of drug needles, garbage, and feces across a 153-block stretch of downtown”: Oh, and it gets worse: As the Investigative Unit photographed nearly a dozen hypodermic needles scattered across one block, a group of preschool students happened to walk by on their way to an afternoon field trip to citiy hall. “We see poop, we see pee, we see needles, and we see trash,” said teacher Adelita Orellana. “Sometimes they ask what is it, and that’s a conversation that’s a little difficult to have with a 2-year old, but we just let them know that those things are full of germs, that they are dangerous, and they should never be touched.” ign.com/boards/threads/nbc-investigation-shows-san-francisco-most-progressive-city-in-country-a-festival-of-filth.455094913/ Thanks to the Democrats doing it to those cities. Just SAD.

julianpenrod

Mar 21, 2018 4:05 PM CDT

San Francisco is applauded for banning the fur industry. Fur comes from animals, creatures who never, conventionally, would become human beings. Murdering embryos, fetuses, living creatures who will become human beings, though, is promoted. Shills for abortion by craven whim, the real name for “abortion on demand”, try to “validate” it by saying that embryos and fetuses are “tumors”. Tumors are not a species, they are not human, they do not develop into distinct creatures. They try to call embryos, fetuses “parasites”. The body does not alter itself to accommodate a parasite. They try to call embryos, fetuses “non living”. Embryos, fetuses grow, respire, metabolize, move, respond, grow, develop as they grow. Many creatures consider living species don't have a number of these qualities. They also try to leave the embryo, fetus out of it, using terms like “the woman's body”, “the woman's choice”, not referring to the act as the killing of an embryo or fetus. Calculated verbiage is commonly seen in acts of deceit. The action by San Francisco is an eminent case of hypocrisy, more than most hypocrisy because what it disadvantages can be said to constitute a level higher than what is favored. It can be called a dangerous manifestation when entire groups of people can favor what is not human but shown depraved indifference to what is human.